Noise Matters : : The Evolution of Communication / / R. Haven Wiley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Wiley, R. Haven,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 p.) :; 17 halftones, 30 line illustrations, 1 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FIGURES --; INTRODUCTION --; PART ONE NOISE AND WAYS TO REDUCE IT --; PART TWO EVOLUTION OF SIGNALERS AND RECEIVERS --; PART THREE ALTERED PERSPECTIVES --; PART FOUR FAR HORIZONS --; CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND OTHER NOTES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674287044; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674287044
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
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We think of noise as background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. But noise is anything that interferes with the reception of signals of any sort. Whatever its cause, the consequence of noise is error by receivers, and these errors are the key to understanding how noise shapes the evolution of communication.